St. Landry democrat., 1887-01-22
DRIED APPLES.
The American Evaporated Article Sup.
planting the Native Fruit in Germany.

The American Evaporated Article Sup.
planting the Native Fruit in Germany.
j. FL. Smith, United States CONNER
cial agent at Mayence, writes the De-
partment of State: The new Ameri-
can method of drying fruit, which gives
such satisfactory results, especially in
apples, is susceptible of being devel-
oped into an important industry. Now
adays in this neighborhood- and I
suppose the same is true of all Ger
many-if you want dried apples, the
American fruit is usually the first Of
fered to you, while a long string OF
adjectivcs is thrown off at you in praise
of it. These apples are to be met with
almost everywhere, and are preferred
to all others on account of the excel
lence with which they are dried and
for their cheapness. For about three
years past-may be four-American
dried apples have been in the German
market and have met with great
success, forcing the native product al
mossentirely out of its own domain.
And it is really a remarkable accom-
plishment that the Americans have
been able to place upon the market
dried fruit which almost vies in fresh
ness and flavor with the fresh fruit, and
yet can be kept for long periods where
that perishes. | believe that both for
our fruit evapOrators, as we'll as for the
dried fruit itself, this country would af-
ford fine market if properly worked
up. The German fruit-driers are of
very inferior character. and the Ger
mans are very far behind the Ameri-
cans and French in drying fruit. The
German cultivators of fruit now find,
when they want to dispose of their
dried fruit in the markets of neighbour
ing towns, that it is much easier mat
ter to produce than to sell; aud the
man who has German dried fruit to
vend goes almost in vain upon his Jour-
neyings with his pack of samples upon
his shoulders, and learns when he seeks
to sell his goods that although his
product is regarded as being as good,
if not better, in the natural quality
of the fruit than the foreign ar
ticle, yet is so inferior in the packing,
appearance and general excellence OF
the drying that few persons want it,
and, moreover, discovers, to his amaze
ment, how much finer and cheaper, in
apples, for instance. the American fruit
is to his own. With pears he meets
with more success. and finds them pre-
ferred to the French and Italian; but it
is always easier to sell dried apples
than dried pears, and it is said that
twenty centners of apples can be sold
to one of pears. The best dried plums
come from France. The consumption
of good dried fruit with the skin off is
slight in this country-may be owing 20
the inferiority of the drying. The most |
of Families do not like it, and it is
seldom seen upon the tables of hotels |
and restaurants. To find market it |
must be sold very cheap, and in this
particular the Americans ought to be
able to meet the demand. American
dried apples, am told, sell twenty-five
to forty per cent. cheaper than the Ger
man. Like everything else the Ger
are doing their best, under
stand, to initiate and counterfeit tho
fruit-drying machines which our people
have put upon the market, and it be-
hooves the American manufacturers to
see to it that the fair field which is open
% them here is not lost beyond recoy-
ery.-Chjcago Times. ..5